Make several meals at home and freeze them. One pot meals like Chicken Ciaccitori, soups, (spaghetti - cook at meal time) marinara gravy and meatballs, etc. and then reheat them on the campfire, or cook them on a small propane or white gas stove.

Grill up some chicken before hand. You could eat it cold, cut up and roll into tortillas for a sandwich, or heat up along with veggies for fajitas.

OMG, Jimenez-you eat that shit?? But, It's way better than "c-rats"! The cans of crackers you could use for skeet, and the tropical "chocolate" you couldn't melt with a blowtorch! Them were the days! I'm just jealous because you guys get that little bottle of Tabasco Sauce.

Sautee the onion till transparent, then toss in the other ingredients and heat thoroughly. Serve over linguine or pasta of choice. Serves four hearty appetites. Fresh trout or salmon can be used, but cook fillets along with the onion and thoroughly debone and break up into small chunks before adding sauce ad herbs. Takes longer to cook the pasta than to cook the sauce (about the same time if you are using fresh fish).

OMG, Jimenez-you eat that shit?? But, It's way better than "c-rats"! The cans of crackers you could use for skeet, and the tropical "chocolate" you couldn't melt with a blowtorch! Them were the days! I'm just jealous because you guys get that little bottle of Tabasco Sauce.

I've never eaten MREs, but I've eaten plenty of C-Rats. They were pretty awful. I haven't been able to stuff down a lima bean since 1969. We'd open the cans with the P-38s 3/4ths of the way and heat them up on the exhaust manifold of the boat engine. Then they were hot but tasted like fuel. The packs of 4 cigarettes seemed to always be Pall Malls and were so old they were like chalk. Since we could buy cigarettes for $1.10/carton not too many of them got smoked. The chocolate had this white film/dust on it and wouldn't melt in >100 degree F weather. I wondered if they put anti-freeze in them to hide the taste of the salt peter . . .

we took the cigs and the little packs of toilet paper, the chiclets and other gum, and that "tropical" chocolate to give to the people in villages we passed through, while our doc did his thing for those who needed doctoring. that stopped after a couple of villages. we came back through on a LRP, and found the VC paid them a visit after we were gone.